4/16/2024 - BradA Likes this wine:

Fu$€ yeah!

Wow. This is one of the most interesting and incredible Barolo I have tasted. Purchased off list at a small Osteria in Novara Italy

So full

So ripe

Dry rose and cherry nose

Tannins that are dry and powerful yet yield
To the food. As a young wine, you don’t expect this level of finesse, but it’s there

A treasure

4/6/2024 - castle.rob@gmail.com Likes this wine:

Pale purple with some garnet Earth, herbs, and a bit of licorice on the nose Bold, juicy red raspberry flavor, with currant and sage
High mouth watering acidity and well integrated tannins, very dry and pleasant

4/10/2024 - rzymelka wrote:

Cooked

4/9/2024 - rzymelka wrote:

Cooked

4/2/2024 - jonathanknowles Likes this wine:

Black fruit, violet, smoke, strawberry, smoked orange peel. Sour cherry, tannic bite, substantial. Long finish.

4/2/2024 - jonathanknowles Likes this wine:

Rose, violet, fruit syrup. Smoke, leather. Still plenty of tannin. Brick dust. Fruit jelly. Excellent.

3/4/2024 - whitmanlholt Likes this wine:

Popped and poured, then put the remaining roughly 1/3 of a bottle in the fridge and revisited the following day. This is a cherry red wine with rusty orange notes starting to show through at the rim. The nose is great and very expressive (and clearly better on day 1 than day 2), showing cherries, rosehips, wet soil, and some damp iron or steel aspects. In the mouth, the wine is crisp and focused, largely revolving around the red fruit characteristics. The finish is chewy, medium length, and gave me a bit of natural licorice. Overall, I thought this was very solid and found it to be a far better bottle than the last one I had in 2018. There should be plenty of gas left in the tank, though, so there is upside potential. 92+ points.

3/1/2024 - vvWine.ch wrote:

(15% Alkohol) Granatrot, orange Ränder. Gereifte Nase, Waldboden, Pilze, Kräuter, Malz, Weihnachtsgewürze, Zwetschgenkompott, ein komplexer Duft. Im Gaumen rund, reif, wuchtig, dennoch mit Eleganz, der Alkohol macht sich bemerkbar, die Reife Frucht wird von merklich Tannin gestützt. Sehr langer, floraler Abgang. Auf dem Peak, trinken bis 2030. 93 vvPunkte

2/12/2024 - DerBismarck Likes this wine:

This is barolo I did not take proper notes but I remember this wine fondly and this might have been the best bottle I drank in 2023.

6/12/2021 - AWBryce wrote:

Classic neb, liquorice, tar, floral, orange spirtz, palate quite tannic, ripe though, nice fruits, long finish. Great balance and ripeness.

11/9/2023 - Jamieson12o Likes this wine:

BBR Piedmont deep dive (BBR): Ruby tending towards garnet. Black cherries and some perceived sweetness on the nose (v. ripe fruit aromas?). Dark cherries and balsamic on palate; nothing floral at all. Pretty assertive tannins. Quite hot? This is very rich - 'chunky' was the word that I wrote down multiple times! Not necessarily my preferred style but it will tick a lot of boxes for those that prefer this sort of barolo.

12/27/2023 - Juliansi Likes this wine:

Birthday boy (One of a trio!) Kelvin brought this aged and very special Barolo along to our lunch - It was one of my favourites of all 12 we had.
Such an expressive nose, lots of luscious blackfruit. The classical black tea notes were there, such fragrance.

I guessed - Nebiollo, Barolo. Perhaps 20 years. When unveiled, all of us were super impressed how young this drank.

Still in a dark ruby red hue, with only a small clear rim. The nose developed to reveal some vanilla and cedar too, I simply loved the aromatics.

Medium-full bodied, beautiful and lifting minerality and that classical M+ acidity. Very refined tannins and a long floral finish as well.

Roberto Voerzio is the original ‘modernist’ Barolo estate.
He is based at La Morra, and the journey all started in the 1980s with only 5 hectares. He makes tiny quantities from a number of top vineyards (La Serra, Rocche dell’Annunziata, Cerequio, Fossati Case Nere, Sarmassa), 60 percent of which have been planted at high density levels.
In contrast, at the winery .. Roberto is relatively traditional, ageing in a combination of small and increasingly large botti since 2008 too.

Roberto Voerzio went out on his own in 1986, and was inspired by the great wines of Burgundy.

He has now 35 hectares of vines, which is quite a lot for Piemonte. 15 are his own and 20 are rented.

All are in La Morra, save one – Sarmassa – which is in Barolo.

There are 3 very distinctive features of Voerzio’s vineyards:
1st - Planted at high density. 3200 vines per hectare is normal for the region, but he’s packing in 8-10,000 vines per hectare.
2nd - Intense and obsessive control of yield.Nebbiolo in the Langhe is normally cropped at 4 kg per plant. He is looking for 500 g per plant (for Barolo) or 700 g/plant for his other wines.
3rd - All his vines are hail netted, so they are quite easy to spot!

Tang Room, PJ, Malaysia
27th Dec 2023

12/9/2023 - Liskit wrote:

Wet leaves, balsamic, truffle, black olive, coffee. High tannins, good balance. Not to age, drink now.

12/9/2023 - Liskit wrote:

Dried cherry, balsamic, black olives, cinnamon, med plus acidity, high tannins, persistent long finish, can keep at least 10 years

12/7/2023 - talbot61 Likes this wine:

This bottle was probably not representative of the vintage -- it had been sitting for a long time in a hot Roman apartment and was very evolved. One person at the table said that it tasted like diluted port -- no acidity, a flavor of ripe figs, some tannin that became more apparent over the course of the evening. It was nevertheless delicious, rich and elegant and easy to drink, with some structure from the remaining tannin.

7/28/2023 - The_Cat wrote:

Deep crimson red. Nice red fruits some cherry and hints of vanilla milk chocolate and flashes of balsamic notes. Full bodied with lots of ripe tannins and acidity and excellent length

6/10/2023 - ILarsen wrote:

Very disappointing - a flawed bottle - not what you expect.

5/19/2023 - dutchmark Likes this wine:

Green eucalyptus on nose, tobacco finish. Good acidity, Tasted at winery

4/23/2023 - SMagowan Likes this wine:

I can’t remember all the details but this just in its earliest stages of drinking well. It is excellent but will be better in 3 to 5 years, I believe.

3/12/2023 - Francophile1 Likes this wine:

March Madness Wine Tasting: Served blind. This is tasting much older than it is. Definitely Nebbiolo from a good producer. Great nose that opens the sinuses. Road tar and a touch of prune.

3/5/2023 - KTelaak_Buffalo Likes this wine:

A tremendous Barolo in a perfect drinking window. Vibrant fruits. One of my favorites.

3/3/2023 - P-M wrote:

Very close to final retirement. Still enjoyable but presumably a shadow of its former self. Throws a lot of sediment.

9/7/1990 - MicklethePickle Likes this wine:

With MPL and Halina at S&F survey of '85 Barolos. Light red color. Nice fruit, cinnamon stick. Pleasant. In the mouth, tight, firm, structured, with a hint of sweetness in the finish. Quite attractive. Complex. This wine is showing well now and has a good future as well. 4-10-16-8: 88/100.

1/28/2023 - beatles wrote:

From MG. Very elegant, very young. The fruit is up front here, tannin quite discrete - albeit present. This is the modern Verzio, much more restrained. The vintage speaks as well, quite approachable even from this format.
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1/1/2023 - talbot61 Likes this wine:

Do you like Barolo? Yes? Then you will find this wine idiotically good -- chewy tannins in the foreground, great depth, leather and tar and flowers and some meatiness, an assortment of flavors of intensity and complexity. Even after two decades, this wine needed four hours in the decanter -- it tasted thin and very acidic at first -- but was perfect with our New Year's Eve dinner. Lots of sediment. The last wine of 2022 and perhaps the best.

12/19/2022 - talbot61 Likes this wine:

@ Boston Wine & Poker Christmas Party: Courtesy of our generous host, Kyle S. Drinkable now -- not tannic, but still a little unyielding, so might blossom with more time in the cellar.

11/30/2022 - Philip67 Does not like this wine:

Pongy and austere. Great depth and multi layered. Huge structure high acidity. In many way similar to a grand cru Burgundy. Real depth and length of tar and fruits of the forest. Long complex.

9/21/2022 - Mrbuzz wrote:

Last minute addition to dinner to celebrate our 25th, splash decanted, then back in bottle. Quick smell of the cork reeked of mint...or is that tca? Hmmm...nose didn't show that in decanter. At dinner, a very disappointing wine. Dark and muddied looking...tasted like prunes, bitter chocolate, leather...nothing at all good about it. Didn't smell like tca...but after having two amazing bottles of this in the last 10yrs, I have to think it was stripped by tca. Too bad...at least our other 1997 wine saved the night for us!

7/23/2022 - edwine__ Does not like this wine:

Very Italian nose with the aromas of leather, tar, licorice and earthy. It is a big, huge, muscular wine with full mouth tannins. Not a fan. Curious why JS gives it 100 points😏😏😏

8/6/2022 - Sean Tay wrote:

Pronounced nose intensity with notes of mushroom, truffle, strawberry. Medium+ acidity and high tannin. Ready to drink. Starting its drinking cycle.

5/20/2022 - Robmcl920 Likes this wine:

The '07 La Serra is a dark beast of a wine, but it appears ready to drink today, as I already found it to be a more savory than fruit-forward wine. That said, I expect the wine will continue to drink well for a while, and it's possible the wine will benefit more from the tannins integrating further than it will lose further fruit.

On the nose, I found black cherry fruit, game, smoke, leather, and sweet spices. On the palate, the wine was incredibly rich, savory, and dark in expression, with black cherry fruit, leather, game, sweet spices and espresso. Texturally, the wine still has medium to high tannin analytically, although given how richly textured it is, covering the tannins a bit, I found it quite drinkable. Acidity is medium.

I found the '07 La Serra very enjoyable, but it is very much a product of the warm, intense '07 vintage.

4/2/2022 - johnh1001 wrote:

Sweet fruit developed over 2 hours.

3/9/2022 - Purple Tooth wrote:

Less and less impressed by high extract at the cost of longevity and problems with retaining freshness. When you hang and squeeze too long and hard, the wines are big, voluptuous and delicious at the beginning, but they seem to tire out over time. This is what I am feeling here having drank a bottle twice over the last couple years. Definitely a decline from last time with a rather Merlot like thickness and far from a Barolo.If blind, I would have bet you this was anything but a Barolo...Developing some warm middle eastern spice within the finish, telling me the time is NOW. DRINK

2/23/2022 - Coastalnative Likes this wine:

Perfectly mature but could easily use a few more years in bottle. Dark and deep red almost mahogany in color. Beautiful tertiary aromatics of cedar, tobacco, tar, iron and sage combine beautifully with the mature red fruits. Tannins are fully resolved with no hard edges. Just a beautiful and complex wine from start to finish.

2/19/2022 - Rollerball wrote:

Breathtaking. Subtle, ripe, feminine. Gentle in its complexity and utterly moving.

This has the stuff to thread the needle for… 5 years? 15? And there’s a reasonable chance it will get even more ethereal. But it’s a dream today so I'd drink now with 2 hours' aeration.

6/22/2020 - AWBryce wrote:

berry, black liquorice; palate is dry, chalky tannin, long red fruit finish. this is a rare example that voerzio's wines have shown as too advanced

12/15/2021 - americanstorm Likes this wine:

2 hour decant. Quite vibrant and tannic but with a fairly muted nose. Was 1/3 the price of the 06 aldo conterno colonnello we drank with it and yet for some this was the wotn. I thought this a solid wine with good mouthfeel, long finish, still some red fruit and other more tertiary notes of tobacco and earth. A solid wine at a fair price point. 91+

12/6/2021 - GuWin wrote:

BYO Litteraturhuset (Litteraturhuset i Oslo): Dyp, mørk farge med murstens kant. Et whiff av aceton til å begynne med, det blåser raskt av. Deretter en nydelig duft av søte mørke bær, bål, tjære, røyk og askebeger. Sødmefull, kompakt smak med massiv munnfølelse og raspende tanniner. Her var flere på bordeaux basert på duft, vi kom oss raskt til nebbiolo og barolo pga tanninstrukturen. Massiv, 20 år gammel barolo som tåler mange år til

12/2/2021 - nynrgtrader@gmail.com Likes this wine:

Deep ruby and just starting to brick at edges

Perfumed nose with dark red fruits, black plums, incense, rose, crayon, black cherry

Fine grained tannins
Rich, full palate with med + acidity ..tons of life here
Black cherry dominates with ripe black plum, orange peel, smoked game, tobacco leaf
Great Barolo...drinking wonderfully now but you can still wait if you want

5/20/2021 - Orange Tsian wrote:

提前24小时开瓶回塞，气味好像一个巨大而紧握的拳头，多钝劲和大块头的肌肉感。梅子、酸梅汤、梅子味的可乐，黑樱桃和黑莓等黑果、甘草梅，还有些肉汤和焦油，随后有太妃糖，重奶油，甘草，香草，肉桂，月桂叶等各种香料，但是并没有遮盖果味。入口酒体宽大，带有些肥厚感，结构好，集中度高，酸度不突出，单宁强，贴舌，带有颗粒感和粉质感，显得有些生硬和年轻。各种比较清澈多汁的黑果，肉汤，烟熏肉，奶油，陈皮，各种各样的香料还让我想到了十三香。整体维持了嗅觉的印象，大块头，整体比较紧张，好像还没有办法很好地控制自己很强的力量。93/100

10/21/2021 - Genghis88 Likes this wine:

@Nightingale with Peter Rae and the gang
Blood in color.
Salty blood, mint, powerful herbaceous nose.
Tastes like the nose. A Little and past its prime.
Nice juice! Thanks John Geb.

10/2/2021 - Rani Does not like this wine:

Tasted blind. Really too hot and alcoholic, bitter aftertaste, cooked fruit. I don’t know if this was a badly stored bottle or it is over the hill, but didn’t enjoy this.

9/18/2021 - chatters wrote:

Coravin tapped this and it was showing a smidge of cork taint...bit of a 'oh shit' moment unsurprisingly so I decided to pop and pour it rather than throw a tantrum. Fortunately I had a bacon and beef neck stew to hand.
All the components are there; On the nose there is a little meatiness initially, cherry, slight wild plum, pot pourri, fresh orange peel, earth and slight leather. The palate is impetuously youthful showing pronounced acidity married to wonderfully grippy, drying tannins. These both travel hand in hand with the flavours implied by the nose on the long, long finish. All are beautifully balanced.
I used argon and small pours - the taint started to show over the 2-3 hour consumption despite these precautions.

9/21/2021 - jshufelt wrote:

Decanted one hour before service - I thought that wasn't going to be even close to enough time, but it turned out well. In the glass, light-medium auburn at the rim, shading to opaque dark burnt orange at the core. On the nose, a blast of cherries from the decanter and the glass, with secondary notes of tar and clove. On the palate, the tannins are almost completely resolved, leaving a silky smooth wine with ample cherries, tar, rose, and a touch of cinnamon, with a moderately long finish and a touch of spice at the end that draws you right back to the glass. A seductive wine for sure.

7/10/2021 - Vini Ciclismo Likes this wine:

Relatively pale, red with darker core. No tawny.
Cherry, damson, floral, minerality, fine dark spice.
Supple, red cherry, cherry stone zest, cola, licorice, tar spice. Generally light in style, but has a freshness and refinement that is very attractive. Flavour intensity is good, and tannins are medium weight and chalky. Feels like a taught lighter styled Barolo, delicious flavours, drinking nicely now.

5/30/2021 - heythatslife wrote:

One poster below mentioned a comparison to Heitz Martha's Vineyard - coincidentally I've also tasted the 2004 of that wine recently and I must say there is some passing resemblance. Meaning, a traditional barolo, this is not, but it's also irresistibly seductive with deep fruit and floral aromatics that jump out of the glass. Tannins are pleasantly soft and the wine is just firing on all cylinders presently.

6/1/2021 - WineTally Likes this wine:

100% Nebbiolo
from south - east facing La Serra vineyard in La Morra
planted at 8000 vines/ha yielding 0.5 kg/plant
without use of chemicals.
Fermentation by natural yeast in stainless steel.
Spontaneous malolactic.
Aged 24 months in used barriques and 15hl casks,
8 months in steel and 8 months in bottle.
Unfilitered.
14.5% Abv. ~6,000 bottles
History: established in 1986
Proprietor/Winemaker: Roberto Voerzio with son Davide

A(ccuray)=2: Med bright ruby/red. Subtly fragrant varietal.
B(alance)=3: Distinctive fruit with polished structure.
C(omplexity)=2: Dark berries, plum, mint, licorice.
D(epth)=2: Lifted mouthfeel. Expansive palate and lingering finish.

Wine Tally Score [2,3,2,2]= 9/10

Savory finesses.

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1/2/2020 - Yagil wrote:

Piemonte wines tasting (at my home): a ripe mature Barolo, from a fairly good, though not outstanding, vintage

4/4/2021 - carl.cornaglia@gmai.com wrote:

Nice bottle of Barolo, but I am yet to have my hair blown back by any Barolo. I'm waiting!

3/25/2021 - StasMedvedev.lv Likes this wine:

🏅 Rating 94/100 (4,4⭐)

Perfumed intense nose with accentuated oak with tar over deep floral dried rose. Palate is multilayered and concentrated. Tannins are ripe and inviting. The wine you want to spend the time with. The epitome of the modernism. Round and mellow mouthfeel. Fruit is ripe leaving the impression of a solar vintage. Prominent acidity. One of the finest sites of La Morra. The vineyard sits above its famous neighbors and thus a higher level of acidity.

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